BILL NUMBER: ACR 174	CHAPTERED  09/18/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   143
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 18, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   AUGUST 31, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 29, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Olberg
   (Coauthor: Senator Knight)

                        AUGUST 7, 2000

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 174--Relative to the California
Highway Patrol Officer Kenneth L. Archer and Officer Robert G. Carey
Memorial.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 174, Olberg.  CHP Officer Kenneth L. Archer and Officer Robert
G.  Carey Memorial.
   The measure would request the Department of Transportation to
grant, without charge, encroachment permits authorizing appropriate
memorials, funded by nonstate sources, to be placed within the
rights-of-way of State Highway Route 58 at milepost marker 18.3 to
honor the memory of California Highway Patrol Officers Archer and
Carey.




   WHEREAS, California Highway Patrol Officer Robert G. Carey was
piloting a departmental helicopter on February 24, 1982, in response
to an emergency call of a downed aircraft in the Harper Lake area
north of State Highway Route 58, when he and his fellow officer,
flight observer Kenneth L. Archer, gave their lives in the line of
duty as their helicopter crashed at Harper Lake; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Robert G. Carey joined the Department of the
California Highway Patrol in December, 1965, graduating from the
patrol academy on March 3, 1966, serving initially in the Indio area
and transferring to the Visalia area on August 19, 1966; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Kenneth L. Archer after graduating from Covina
High School in Covina, California in 1957, joined the United States
Air Force in August 1957, served honorably until September 1960, and
continued to serve his country in the Air Force Reserves until 1963;
and
   WHEREAS, Officer Archer joined the Department of the California
Highway Patrol on July 14, 1969, graduating from the patrol academy
on November 10, 1969, serving initially in the South Los Angeles
area, and transferring to the Barstow area on March 12, 1970, where
he served as the School Bus, Vehicle Identification, and Public
Affairs officer; and
   WHEREAS, On June 8, 1981, Officer Carey was assigned to the Inland
Division Air Operation Unit as a helicopter pilot stationed at
Daggett, California; and
   WHEREAS, On March 1, 1980, Officer Archer was assigned to the
Inland Division Air Operation Unit as a flight observer stationed at
Daggett, California; and
   WHEREAS, Officers Carey and Archer, as a result of their
unwavering dedication to the citizens of the State of California, and
their commitment and contributions to the safety of the motoring
public represented the Department of the California Highway Patrol in
an outstanding manner; and
   WHEREAS, In recognition of their ultimate sacrifice, it is
appropriate that on the westbound and eastbound portions of State
Highway Route 58 in the unincorporated area of San Bernardino County
that appropriate memorials to the memory of these fine officers be
placed within the rights-of-way of State Highway Route 58 at milepost
marker 18.3; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Department of Transportation is
requested to grant, without charge, the necessary encroachment
permits authorizing appropriate memorials, honoring the memory of
Officers Robert G. Carey and Kenneth L.  Archer, funded by nonstate
sources, to be placed within the rights-of-way of westbound and
eastbound State Highway Route 58 at milepost marker 18.3; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.
